All throughout the campaign Obama was telling us that he would repair our reputation with our allies in the world. Well, Team Obama has snubbed Prime Minster Brown and gave him the DVD of the month club as a present as Brown gave Obama a serious gift. The worst part of that is that Gordon Brown does not like to watch movies because of his poor vision and hardly watches movies in the first place. But even before this gigantic gaffe, team Obama snubbed the members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Belgian Senate. They were sent an invitation to come to the US Embassy for the Crowning of the One as the next Ruler of America, but later got dis-invited.

What is it with Team Obama wanting to have tea and meetings with our enemies like Iran and asking Russia to help us, but snubs our allies. I thought that they were going to repair our standing in the world.

Not Welcome at the U.S. Embassy

Three weeks ago, all the members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Belgian Senate received an invitation of the US Embassy in Brussels to attend the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama at the Embassy on 20 January. Senators Karim Van Overmeire and Freddy Van Gaever, both belonging to the Vlaams Belang (VB) party, the largest party in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking northern half of Belgium, accepted the invitation.

On the very morning of the inauguration, however, the secretary of the two VB senators received a phone call from the U.S. Embassy. The embassy told her that the invitation of the VB politicians was “a mistake” and requested them “not to come.”

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“Never in my tours of service have I ever heard of any political party’s representative, especially those members who are part of the foreign policy machinery of the government, being ‘disinvited’ after a formal embassy invitation had been proffered; it flies in the face of diplomatic protocol and good judgment.

“The closest similar incident that I recall happened after the election of Reagan in 1984, and there were questions raised within the embassy about inviting the head of the Fremskrit (‘Progressive’) Party to the inaugural celebration because of his very strong opposition to Third World immigration into Norway. In the end, Karl I. Hagen was invited, for it was considered improper, and a violation of protocol not to do so.

“The decision to ban the members of Vlaams Belang to the inaugural viewing had to have come from Washington. No ambassador – at least no perceptive one – wishes to burn his bridges to the legislative body of the nation to which he is accredited; aside from being stupid, it is counterproductive in fulfilling his objectives.”---Brussels Journal

Nice. Starting us out on the right foot. I wonder when he will snub our best ally Australia???

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